All eyes were on the teamsheet as Ange made seven changes to the team that started at Old Trafford and included four teenagers in the starting line-up – Mikey Moore (17), Archie Gray (18), Lucas Bergvall (18) and Will Lankshear (19). It was Lankshear’s debut and Moore’s first start and the first time we’d started four teenagers in Europe since our UEFA Cup tie against Shakhtar Donetsk in February, 2009 (Gareth Bale, Gio dos Santos, Chris Gunter, Jon Obika).
In-form, with six wins in six domestically, Ferencvaros slipped into gear early and created chances for Verga and Adama Traore. Lankshear did well to meet Timo Werner’s cross on 10 minutes, only to head over and Sarr’s snapshot forced the first save of note two minutes later from Denes Dibusz.
Varga and the majority of the 20,795 fans were celebrating a goal on 16 minutes as the striker looped home Eldar Civic’s cross, but he was narrowly offside, the goal ruled out by VAR.
You sensed that first goal could be key and it duly arrived midway through the half when Moore drove in from the right and found Lankshear, Bergvall joined in the melee and the ball ran loose into the path of Sarr, who made no mistake from close range.
We were now settled in the game and soon struck the woodwork as Pedro Porro’s low drive cannoned back off the inside of the post. Dibusz also fielded efforts from Sarr and Moore with Traore’s sliced effort the only threat at the other end.
Guglielmo Vicario would soon be tested at the start of the second half as he produced a fingertip save to deny Matheus Saldanha. It was all us for the next 30 minutes though as Romero and Lankshear went close, Werner went through on goal but took the ball too wide, eventually hitting the side-netting and Johnson, off the bench with James Maddison and Deki Kulusevski on 65 minutes, firing against the crossbar on 80 minutes.
Kady, twice, Cebrails Makreckis and Abu Fani all had half-chances as the home side upped the pressure before Johnson struck the key goal for the 2-0 cushion on 86 minutes. Once again Moore was involved in the move, this time finding Solanke, he shifted on to Johnson who did the rest.
Varga pounced at the near post for 2-1 but there were no further scares as we secured our first away win in Europe since beating Marseille in the Champions League back in December, 2022.
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